latest hammer price
Auction lots
27
Houses
1
Last sold
117 days ago
Karuizawa 1972 Vintage Cask #7038 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Karuizawa. Based on 27 recorded auction lots across 17 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £2,500, with the most recent sale at £3,000. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £600 (low) to £3,400 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Karuizawa 1972 Vintage Cask #7038 is £2,760–£3,240 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Karuizawa 1972 Vintage Cask #7038 is up 20%, with a 6-month trend of +36.4% (up). wsky1 aggregates hammer prices from major public Scotch whisky auctions including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium (typically 24–28% additional at major houses). Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Karuizawa is a whisky distillery. Karuizawa 1972 Vintage Cask #7038 is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1972.
Closed / ghost distillery
Karuizawa closed in 2000 and has since been demolished — no new whisky will ever be produced, which underpins exceptional auction demand.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1972), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 7038) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.
These are scarcity and demand signals drawn from the bottle's own attributes — they describe the bottle, not a prediction of future price. Not investment advice.
Latest sale
£3,000
24-month median
£2,500
24-month high
£3,400
24-month low
£600
Estimated value · likely range
£2,760–£3,240 ±8%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
117 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | £3,000 | 1 |
| April 2026 | £2,900 | 2 |
| June 2018 | £3,000 | 2 |
| April 2018 | £2,600 | 1 |
| March 2018 | £2,600 | 1 |
| December 2017 | £2,600 | 2 |
| May 2017 | £2,200 | 2 |
| March 2017 | £2,600 | 2 |
| December 2016 | £3,400 | 2 |
| February 2016 | £2,300 | 2 |
| November 2015 | £2,500 | 1 |
| October 2015 | £2,500 | 1 |
Karuizawa 1972 Vintage Cask #7038 appeared in 3 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 28% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Karuizawa 1972 Vintage Cask #7038 at auction is £3,000. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £2,500, with a high of £3,400 and a low of £600. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium. Data is aggregated from major auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams.
Karuizawa 1972 Vintage Cask #7038 is up 20% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 36.4%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Karuizawa 1972 Vintage Cask #7038 regularly appears at major Scotch whisky auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions (Scotland), Whisky Auctioneer (Scotland), Just Whisky, Whisky Hammer, and Bonhams. The current median hammer price is £2,500 (excluding buyer's premium). At most major houses, buyer's premium adds 24–28% on top of hammer for the buyer; sellers typically receive the hammer price minus a sales commission of 5–15%.
Over the past 12 months Karuizawa 1972 Vintage Cask #7038 has moved up 20%, with a current median hammer price of £2,500. The bottle has been observed at auction across 27 recorded lots in our database. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice. Whisky is an illiquid alternative asset; secondary-market value depends heavily on bottle condition, fill level, label integrity, and timing.
wsky1 ingests public auction results from major auction houses (via direct scraping of Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, Bonhams, and Whisky Hammer, plus aggregated data from WhiskyHunter). For each bottle, we group hammer prices by year-month and compute the median price per month. The figures shown — latest £3,000, 24-month median £2,500 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.
No. All prices on wsky1 are hammer prices only. Buyer's premium at major Scotch whisky auction houses currently runs at 24–28% on top of the hammer price. A bottle of Karuizawa 1972 Vintage Cask #7038 that hammers at £3,000 would cost the buyer approximately £3,780 all-in including buyer's premium.
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